William Aitken (Steamship) photograph
- CA PCA Acc4239
- Collection
- [ca. 1910]
The collection consists of one mounted photograph of the steamboat "William Aitken" moored somewhere in Nova Scotia.
The "William Aitken", a screw steamer carrying two engines, was built in Yarmouth, N.S. in 1887 by George W. Johston. She was 73'9" long, 18'3" wide, with a gross tonnage of 75 and a registered weight of 51 T. Registration was transferred to P.E.I. in 1889. She was owned and operated by William H., George E., and Frank C. Batt, of Charlottetown and named for William H. Aitken, prominent citizen and businessman in Charlottetown. She was deemed unseaworthy, dismantled, and broken up in Charlottetown in 1928.
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